Metabolomics reveals impact of seven functional foods on metabolic pathways in a gut microbiota model.

ABSTRACT: Functional food defined as dietary supplements that in addition to their nutritional values, can beneficially modulate body functions becomes more and more popular but the reaction of the intestinal microbiota to it is largely unknown. In order to analyse the impact of functional food on the microbiota itself it is necessary to focus on the physiology of the microbiota, which can be assessed in a whole by untargeted metabolomics. Obtaining a detailed description of the gut microbiota reaction to food ingredients can be a key to understand how these organisms regulate and bioprocess many of these food components. Extracts prepared from seven chief functional foods, namely green tea, black tea, Opuntia ficus-indica (prickly pear, cactus pear), black coffee, green coffee, pomegranate, and sum

SUBMITTER: Farag MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7016031 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature